The artist must be a child of the infinite.

I write songs about myself because that’s the only thing I know.

我是一个充满缺点的女人，但我试图用激情和爱来弥补它们。

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

作家的任务就是把主角逼上绝路，然后向他扔石头。